Guide to "wikiing"

(by theRazor)

This page is just meant to provide a few basic guidelines on how to write and format material for the FYG wiki. These aren't really rules, just suggestions for keeping the wiki's content neat and useful.

When you're writing, try to keep in mind that this wiki isn't just for us forum members to read, but for new people to use as well. So, though joking is encouraged, make sure that people with half a brain can tell what is and isn't true. Also, at least in theory, things you say on the wiki ought to be written only if you think somebody, sometime will find them worth reading (and no Clint, reading it yourself doesn't count), so try not to make them overlong, or totally pointless.

Oh, and a request to long time members (which will likely be the only people with reason to read this), please do not replace factual information about a person or topic just to make it into a joke. The in-joking is great and their will be lots of that on the wiki--but not at the expense of actual content.

Ok. I'm done telling you what you already knew anywhay, now on to a few notes on formatting wiki entries: text should be typed normally (not bolded, boxed, or italic), with a line skipped between paragraphs and no indentation at the beginning of lines.

If anything in your text refers to something that another wiki page is devoted to, you should probably insert a link to that wiki page. To do this surround the text you want to make into a link with square brackets: "[]"

Then, after the first square bracket type the actual name of the wiki page followed by a: "|"

For example, if I want the text "LOTE" to link to the "Life On The Edge" page, I'd type: [Life On The Edge|LOTE]

witch would come out looking like this: LOTE

If you think that something you mention should have its own page but one doesn't exist yet, do the exact same thing as described above. Chances are somebody else will fill in your link. So, where you would normally type the real page name, type the name of the article that ought to go there. Make sure that title isn't a common word or phrase, and all first letters in it are capitalized.

Those same things are good ideas when adding new wiki articles. Make sure the title is descriptive, and not too long to type in a link. But also try and make sure it isn't a common word or phrase. If it is, it'd be a good idea to put it in quotation marks.

There are a couple types of pages that we use certain formats for all the time. Normal articles always have a title at the top preceded by !! to make it into a size 2 heading. If the page was written by somebody else, include an attribution like the one at the top of this article in bold.

For articles about specific forum members make sure the thing at the top of the page is a blurb like this that provides that person's screen name and other handles:

Screen Name: theRazor

Name(s)/Nicknames: John, Writer of this Article, Long-winded

If you want to list contact information for the person add a similarly formatted piece at the bottom of the article under a size 1 heading, like so:

Contact Information

AIM: sitontheedge

Yahoo: drwho_66

Email Address: drwho_66@yahoo.com